He recruited dozens of prominent African-American athletes to Iowa City, including Ozzie Simmons, Jim Walker, Emlen Tunnell, Earl Banks, Harold Bradley Jr., Nolden Gentry, Carl Cain, wrestler Simon Roberts, and many others. Personal life and death Slater married Etta Searcy in 1926, and they remained married until her death in 1962; they had no children. Duke Slater died in 1966 at age 67 of stomach cancer and was buried in Mount Glenwood Cemetery south of Chicago. Honors For his playing career at Clinton High School, Duke Slater was elected to the Iowa High School Football Hall of Fame in 1980. Slater was one of just five football players inducted into the Iowa Sports Hall of Fame in the Hall's inaugural year in 1951, joining Nile Kinnick, Aubrey Devine, Jay Berwanger, and Elmer Layden. In 1946, Slater was one of 11 players selected to an all-time college football All-American team by a nationwide poll of 600 sportswriters and coaches. The Football Writers Association of America chose Duke Slater in 1969 as one of 44 players on an all-century team covering the first 100 years of college football. When the College Football Hall of Fame opened in 1951, Duke Slater was the only African-American elected in the Hall’s inaugural class. He was one of two Hawkeye players inducted that year, along with Nile Kinnick. In 1972, University of Iowa president Willard Boyd proposed renaming Iowa Stadium “Kinnick-Slater Stadium” after Nile Kinnick and Duke Slater, but the university decided to name it after Kinnick alone. Instead, the university named the residence hall closest to the stadium Slater Hall in his honor. Hawkeye fans voted for an all-time University of Iowa football team during the 100th anniversary celebration of Iowa football in 1989, and Slater was selected as a tackle. In 2013, the University of Iowa placed Duke Slater’s name and jersey number (#15) on the Kinnick Stadium Wall of Honor. Slater was one of nine Hawkeyes recognized on the Wall of Honor. In 2019, the University of Iowa unveiled a sculpture of Duke Slater on the north end of Kinnick Stadium. The relief depicts Slater’s famous block against Notre Dame in 1921, captured in the photograph by Kent. A plaque next to the relief reads, “Slater drives the opposition back in calm determination. His life in football and beyond was defined by triumph and relentless breaking of boundaries." An apartment complex in Chicago,